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Dead 16 Mar 2013 | 06:31 pm
Remember I am no longer updating this blog until I finish Storyteller: http://storyteller-game.com It has nice pictures like this one:
New Website and Gameplay Video 13 Dec 2012 | 04:04 am
I decided Storyteller deserved its own website instead of being here on my personal blog. Also, since explaining the game through text is kind of hard, I decided to record a very short gameplay video...
Pax 2012 (with pictures) 8 Sep 2012 | 04:44 am
Last week I was invited to show Storyteller at the Penny Arcade Expo as a guest of Spy Party‘s booth. It was the first time the game is playtested publicly and it surpassed all of our expectations: p...
Storyteller Playtest at PAX 24 Aug 2012 | 03:44 am
Next week I am traveling to Seattle to attend PAX as a guest for the Spy Party Booth, where Storyteller will be publicly playable. It will be the first time the game is shown in an environment with g...
Storyteller Design Problem 18 Aug 2012 | 02:09 am
I have a big problem with Storyteller’s design right now… There are just too many rules. The first stories are simple and most people have no problem going through them, but as more and more charact...
Depth Jam 26 May 2012 | 01:57 pm
Recently I participated in the first “Depth Jam“, organized by Jonathan Blow and Chris Hecker, along with Marc Ten Bosch. The goal of Depth Jams is to come up with solutions for hard design problems ...
StringSet Class for Actionscript 3 4 Apr 2012 | 12:23 pm
Storyteller uses String IDs heavily, and I want to store them in collections but don’t want to risk duplicates, which is what the Set data structure is for. Unfortunately, Actionscript 3 does not fea...
Storyteller: You don’t know what I know 21 Mar 2012 | 02:14 pm
Storyteller might allow characters to lie. Characters in Storyteller have perfect information about everything that happened in the story. While this allows plenty of interesting situations, I feel I...
Storyteller wins Nuovo Award, I go on a game making retreat 13 Mar 2012 | 10:03 am
Shocked and surprised, I stumbled to get the Nuovo award at this year’s IGF and gave an unusual, improvised acceptance speech. This means that the game might be able to get more credibility with the ...
Storyteller: Mechanics 4 Feb 2012 | 11:34 am
Disclaimer: all this might change before release! It has happened before… Storyteller has a simple interface: you drag actors into panels to give form to a story, but you don’t directly control how e...
